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This is the seventh and final part of my Blob location video!Filmed in the city of Abbeville on july 2022.
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Aug 4, 2023 · The creature feature lets loose a gelatinous pink blob of goo upon the small town of Arborville, California, where it wreaks havoc with its insatiable appetite. It doesn’t care about ...
- Meagan Navarro
Oct 18, 2022 · The brilliance of The Blob is how cruelly it pays off its lovely moments: how when the Blob grows like a carnivorous Katamari Damacy and starts eating everyone in little “Arborville, CA,” Fran ...
- Walter Chaw
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In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. Chuck Russell. Director, Screenplay. Frank Darabont.
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A meteorite crashes near the town of Arborville, California. An elderly transient discovers, within the sphere, a jelly-like substance (the Blob) that attaches itself to his hand. Three high school students, Brian (Kevin Dillon), Meg (Shawnee Smith), and Paul (Donovan Leitch), encounter the man and take him to a hospital. After Brian leaves, Paul w...
Screenwriter Frank Darabont first met director Chuck Russell in 1981, while working as a production assistant on the film Hell Night. Before working together on The Blob, the two also collaborated on the script for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. The movie was filmed in Abbeville, Louisiana. Like other remakes of the time, this movie i...
The film was released theatrically in the United States by TriStar Pictures in August 1988. It grossed $8,247,943 at the box office. On DVD the film was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2001.
The Blob received mixed reviews from critics. As of January 17, 2014, it holds a 61% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 5.8/10, the same rating as the original. It was a box office failure. Still, like the original, it gained a cult following
The film functions as a conspiracy theory film. The threat of the original film was an alien entity from outer space. The remake differs in making the threat a biological weapon, created by a secret government agency. The Blob is closely followed by soldiers and scientists in protective suits. The change reflects the mentality of a more cynical era...
The Blob (1988) at the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Blob (1988) at AllMovieThe Blob (1988) at Rotten TomatoesThe Blob (1988) at WikipediaUpdate. The 1988 remake of "The Blob" was shot partially in the small South Louisiana town of Abbeville (population roughly 12,000), located around fifty miles from the Gulf of Mexico. In the film, the city is called "Arborville," and the location is Northern California. In "The Blob," the city of Arborville is a small ski resort town that ...
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The Blob is a 1988 American science-fiction horror film, a remake of the 1958 classic about a deadly blob from another planet which lands in Arborville, a tiny California town. The strange, gelatinous substance melts the flesh of any living creatures in its path. The deadly substance gets into the town's sewer system, where it begins growing uncontrollably, occasionally emerging to feast on ...
